On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:11:19PM +0200, Flavio Hendry wrote: > > Perhaps that multi-user geodatabase (similar to ArcSDE), that Doug > > Cubin asked for a couple of days ago. Imagine if we had that today, > > out-of-the-box, easy to use? > > All there! Why does MapInfo not take PostGIS and/or MySQL MyGIS and plug > them in? Free out-of-the-internet and easy to use! And no major overhead > like with Oracle ... and it would be the only commercial desktop GIS > doing that (as far as I know) ...
Market size probably has a lot to do with that decision. But it sure looks to me that there are some very cool tools for MapInfo users in that direction! I expect that it's only a matter of time before somebody works out how to provide MapInfo features directly over an ODBC connection to a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database, but even without that there are good business reasons to look into it. I had no trouble connecting a PostgresSQL database to MapInfo, so I can now deploy a Internet-based multi-user database using MapInfo Pro in the front end. Also, with the PG scripting capability plus PostGIS/Geos extensions I'm even learning to do things I can't do in MapInfo, and can see generally how the spatial capability might be built in one day. I'd agree with you that there are a lot of FOSS database and GIS software tools that are useful now and getting better all the time. Wish I had more time to explore them! _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
